I don't recall where I first encountered Juan Gabriel Vasquez's The Informers , but at some point it stumbled across my radar. Mayb...

I have a book that's been sitting on my shelf for almost two years - an Israeli satire about book reviewing. I bought it for obvious rea...

A couple months ago, NPR hosted an online poll in order to create the " 100 Best Ever Teen Books ". Nominations flooded in, a list...

Philippe Claudel's Brodeck's Report  is one of my absolute favorite books from the past five years. It's a powerful, beautifully...

A few weeks ago I read the recently popular Divergent  by Veronica Roth. The book was mostly what I expected it would be - exciting and fast...

Grazia Deledda's novel  After the Divorce  doesn't seem to be all that popular, and I'm not sure why. Sure, the fact that it ...

The recent furor regarding Amazon book reviews being paid for frustrates me for a few reasons. Obviously there's my deep objection to th...

I read the absolutely amazing A Monster Calls  a few short weeks ago. Within a day of reading it, I had already gone back to it, reading it ...

This weekend, I happened to read a bad book (hereby referred to as  Meh ) . Among the many things that made it very disappointing, there was...

A couple years back, I spent a day scouring Gutenberg for all kinds of free goodies. Specifically, I wanted to see what public domain scienc...

If not for fear of sounding too subjective, I would describe A Monster Calls  as a perfect book. Maybe there's the technical issue as ...

Though I have my issues with Sayed Kashua's Second Person Singular  (chief among which is a disturbingly spoiler filled back-cover blurb...

I only just read this post about ARCs being sold en masse on eBay over at Staffer's Book Review, and I'm seriously annoyed. The who...

Readers of this blog will know that I'm a bilingual reader. I frequently post about Israeli novels, publishing and news, and will occasi...

My need to read something by Amos Oz has been growing for several years. It seemed unreasonable to me that I had not read anything by one of...

I'm giving up on The Fat Years  by Chan Koonchung. I'm more than halfway through the book, but after a week of trying to read this r...

At least, they shouldn't. The past few years, I've noticed a disturbing phenomenon in Israeli bookstores: books older than a year ...

If ever a book to have two starkly different titles in two different languages, The Confessions of Noa Weber  by Gail Hareven is a prime exa...

In an interesting post over at Tor.com, Steven Padnick  writes in defense of "red matter" : Red matter is... the stuff that exp...

I've blogged about Czesław Miłosz in the past: Miłosz has been one of my favorite poets since I first discovered him in the spring o...